We're tired of paying all sorts of fees for checking our bags and Loews Hotels feels our pain. They'll continue to reimburse guests for their $15 checked baggage for up to two bags for a maximum of $30 per occupied room per stay.
Just present any airline bag fee receipt at the front desk to receive the rebate, which will be issued in the form of a credit to their bill at check-out.
Loews has extended this promotion - which they began when American Airlines started this nonsense and began charging passengers for checked baggage this spring - until November 30. That means you can still go on your out-of-town post-Thanksgiving shopping spree (the Loews Regency Hotel New York comes to mind as an option! ) and not fret about your baggage.
Good news for weary travelers sick of the airline drama that continues to plague our nation. Three boutique hotels in Los Angeles are picking up the tab for your checked bags.
Catering to travelers unwilling to compromise their jet-set lifestyle, these trend-setting hotels will lighten guests' stress-load by reimbursing one-hundred percent of the charges incurred by airlines for extra baggage fees, up to seventy-five dollars in hotel credit, per reservation.
Sounds good to us! The offer is good through December 28, 2008. Use promotion code "money" when making phone reservations or use code "Money Bags" when booking online. And one final note: Airline-issued proof of fee payment required at check-in; receipt date must correspond with reservation dates.
Room rates at these hotel start at around $229 a night.
As we are all slowly adjusting to the horrendous nature of checked baggage fees on major airlines, hotels on Amelia Island are trying to ease the pain a bit.
In an effort to get more visitors to Florida in what is typically called the off season, Amelia Island has created a "Pack Your Bags for Amelia Island" program that includes a room credit up to $80 for checked baggage fees.
The "Pack Your Bags" program is being offered at several of the island's hotels, resorts and bed-and-breakfast inns, and is available through September 30, 2008 on stays of three or more nights at the participating hotels.
At check-in, guests must show the original receipt from the airline, proving the amount they paid in checked baggage fees.
Go here for the full list of participating hotels.
Looks like the Loews Hotel group was beat to the punch with the checked baggage fees promotion which they announced yesterday.
The consistent do-gooder of the hotel world, Kimpton Hotels started offering guests cash back for their checked baggage fees on May 22 in a new service called the "We Got Your Bag" program.
Beginning May 22 through Sept. 9, guests need simply to show proof of an additional airline baggage charge upon check in at any one of Kimpton's 43 hotels in the U.S. and Canada, and a room credit will be issued in that amount, up to $25, offsetting the pass-along cost to air travelers. Some restrictions apply.
Interestingly, the hotel group made the announcement on April 23, a full month before American Airlines decided to stick passengers with a $15 for the first checked bag ($25 for the second.) This is because they were trying to relieve customers who had to check a second bag and were dinged with the fees. Now it applies to all of us who check a bag.
Know of another hotel offering cash back for checked airline baggage? Let us know.
Where the airlines have failed travelers--American Airlines is now charging $15 for the first checked bag and $25 for the second--hotels have come to the rescue. At least the Loews Hotels brand has.
Arriving guests need only present any airline bag fee receipt at the front desk to receive the rebate, which will be issued in the form of a credit to their bill at check-out.
The Baggage Buy Back rebate is available at Loews' 18 properties in the U.S. and Canada, beginning June 15 through Labor Day, September 1, 2008.
Loews Hotels will offer credit for up to two bags for a maximum of $30 per occupied room per stay.
This is not the only time hotels have picked up after the airlines. Some hotels like Omni Hotels, were quick to offer guests toiletries back in 2006 when liquids were suddenly restricted on airlines.
Now let's hope more and more hotels follow Loews footsteps.
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We're tired of paying all sorts of fees for checking our bags and Loews Hotels feels our pain. They'll continue to reimburse guests for their $15 checked baggage for up to two bags for a maximum of $30 per occupied room per stay.
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